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Johan Michalove is nearly 3,000 miles from the Los Angeles wildfires, but that didn’t stop him from pitching in. A doctoral student in the field of information science currently based in New York City, Michalove developed an interactive map at fireaid.info that has become an online hub for thousands of people in the greater Los Angeles area who need...

The message arrived to Kathy Wang on a notecard. She was at a sorority event as an undergraduate student, and beforehand, her fellow sisters had been encouraged to write positive messages to one another. Senders could identify themselves or not. Kathy’s card arrived anonymously. “Thank you for always finding a reason to smile.” Those nine words made her day...

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On April 24, more than 250 students, faculty, and staff gathered for the annual Belonging Awards , hosted by the Office of Belonging at Bowers in partnership with Association of Computer Science Undergraduates (ACSU), Women in Computing at Cornell (WICC), and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing (URMC). The celebration recognized individuals who have...

In between classes and extracurriculars, participants in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Mind (BOOM) event, which showcases students’ tech-based projects, could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep, but instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code, and create. BOOM, now in its 27th year, took place April 23 in the Duffield...

July 31, 2024 By Patricia Waldron Eighteen students from across the country got a crash course in computer vision, machine learning, and how to secure a research career in tech during the 2024 SoNIC Summer Research Workshop, held June 24-28 on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. SoNIC participants developed models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects...